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Nall's Glossary
of East Anglian Dialect
Reprinted from 'Chapters on the East Anglian
Coast', 1866
by John Greaves Nall
The best existing book on East Anglian dialect, with
etymology, comparative examples from other counties and countries,
quotations to illustrate use, and many interesting reflections on the
history of words - all by a Derbyshire man who fell in love with Norfolk
and Suffolk! (232 pp. 400g. ISBN 978 1 904006 34 3)
£12.50
A Researcher's
Glossary
of words found in historical documents of East
Anglia
compiled by David Yaxley
This glossary is the result of forty years of delving
in the archives of Norfolk and Suffolk. It gives the meaning of words that
frequently crop up in wills and inventories, domestic accounts, and
churchwardens records, with quotations from documents so that readers may
understand the contemporary use of the words. It is illustrated by
contemporary prints and some fine drawings by the authors. ISBN 978 1
904006 13 8. Price £11.50
Your
affectionate and loving sister the correspondence of Elizabeth Postlethwaite
and
Barbara Kerrich 1733-51, ed. Nigel Surrey. (144pp. 20 b & w
photos, 3 maps) Letters from the times of Walpole and Townshend,
delightful gossipy exchanges sent between Denton and Dersingham by two
devoted sisters, carrying news of births and deaths, food and fashions,
miscarriages and marriages. ISBN 978 0 948400 92 6.
£7.25.
A Turning of
Keys - Poets and Norfolk 1460-1991
Peter J. Beer
Fourteen poets are here, each with a
biography and specimen poems to whet the appetite for more. Their
connections with the country of Norfolk are as varied as the men
themselves: Skelton preached, Tusser farmed, Borrow and Auden were
educated; Cowper and Swinburne in different ways recuperated; Greene
caroused and Taylor sailed around our treacherous coast. Henry Howard,
Earl of Surrey; lived here in splendour, George Barker in poverty. Hood
was inspired by a Norfolk arrest; Corbett was Bishop; Shadwell was born at
Santon Hall and Mottram, a distinguished citizen and Mayor, lived and
wrote in Norwich. They shared the gift of poetry. ISBN 978 1 904006 14 5
Price £6.95
The Song o'
Sorlomun translated by Revd E.
Gillett. (32 pp., weight
100g.)
On facing pages 'The Song of Solomon' in the Authorised
Version and 'The Song o' Sorlomun' in Norfolk dialect. ISBN 978 0 948400
21 6. £2.50.
Broader
Norfolk A quizzionary of essential Norfolk, by
David Stannard
Dialect quizzes with long informative answers to
make sure you understand about liggers, harnsers, tittermatorters and
bishy-barnabees - half quiz book half dictionary. Illustrated by George
Smith. Price £4.95. 200g. ISBN 978 1 904006 03 9.
The Novels of Mary E.
Mann
Mary Rackham was born in Norwich in 1848 and moved to
Shropham when she married Fairman Mann a farmer, in 1871. When their
income from farming declined, she wrote 39 novels and many short stories
to supplement their income. They were immensely popular in her day and
admired by D. H. Lawrence, but they have been out of print for a century.
Her writing shows an unrivalled knowledge of Norfolk village life, dialect
and mind-set. Three of these novels are now back in print and we hope
there will soon be more.
The Parish of Hilby (208 pp. 350g ISBN 987 1 904006 41 1)
Her first novel, 'the only one I ever wrote without conscious or more or less painful effort'. A first-hand account of life in a Norfolk village in the 1880s with a good love story to keep you turning the pages. Price £9.50
The Patten Experiment (128pp. 250g ISBN 978 1
904006 33 7)
A family of well-to-do young people attempt to live on
the labourers' wage of 11s. a week in a tied cottage, and quickly come to
grief. First published 1899 £7.50
Rose at Honeypot (144pp. 300g ISBN 978 1
904006 36 7)
Searching for rural simplicity and charm, Rose finds
herself in the household of Dan Jaggerd, who is lazy, unfaithful to his
wife, a drunkard, a thief and brutal to his children. The young
gamekeeper, Lorry, however, is more attractive. First published 1906
£7.50
And now the Short Stories
The Complete Tales of Dulditch
by Mary E. Mann
Foreword by D.J.Taylor. Introduction by Patience Tomlinson.
Thirty-two sparely written stories of Dulditch (based on Shropham, Norfolk) at the turn of the nineteenth century, reprinted together for the first time. Two earlier reprints contained different , but overlapping, selections of the stories. This volume contains all of these plus ten others gleaned from other Mary Mann collections.
Patience Tomlinson says: 'Each one of them is like a perfect one-act play,a small masterpiece of both tragedy and comedy.
Adrian Bell said: 'The people are more real to me than Hardy's.'
D. J. Taylor says: 'In her chosen form she is one of the greatest talents of the late-Victorian age. This is a substantial claim, but I have never met anybody compelled to read Little Brother, Wolf Charlie or Dora o' the Ringolets' who didn't share it.'
Price £11.50 (272 pp. ISBN 978 1 904006 43 5)
And now Mary E. Mann's comic masterpiece
Astray in Arcady
Introduction by Patience Tomlinson
Charlotte Poole, a London novelist, descends upon Dulditch to 'study the native at first hand'. The characters of the village provide much material for her dry wit, expressed in letters to her son and her friend, Hildred.
Charlotte Poole, the flamboyant narrator of this novel, is a delicious creation, undoubtedly something of a self-portrait.' Patience Tomlinson
Great fun!
£9.50
ISBN 978 1 904006 50 3
